Are You Too Busy?

[majestyjo]

Are You Too Busy?

Psalm 107:9 - “He has satisfied the thirsty soul, and the hungry soul He has filled (NASB).”

I glanced at the gas gauge. “I’ll make it,” I reasoned. “Don’t have time to stop now.” An hour later the red warning light blinked on. “Uh-oh, really getting low,” I thought. “Probably should stop and get gas, but just don’t have time. I think I can make it to the next exit.”

But I did not make it to the next exit. The car sputtered and rolled to a stop. The tank was empty. No gas, no power, no go. “I wish I had heeded the warning light,” I muttered as I started the hike to the gas station I passed several miles before.

“In the busyness of our day and life, it may seem like a waste of time to slow down, to stop what we’re doing, and take break. It is no more a waste of time than stopping to put gas in our car when the tank is almost empty.” These are the insightful words of Melody Beattie from her book, The Language of Letting Go.

God does not expect us to run our lives on empty. He promises to fill up our longing souls. We need time alone — and with Him.

Lord, I know my red warning light is flashing.

Help me slow down and fill up before I run out of inner strength.

Joan C. Webb

Busy is an addiction. It is the same as being a workaholic. Filling up our time, so we don`t have time to look at our stuff, forgetting that if you are too busy doing, you are missing out in today and blocking out your God, even if you are doing service for others. Our disease uses people, places and things to take ourselves out of our self, to look for something that will make us happy. Living my life through others, is not living, it is often putting up barriers and not accepting God`s plan for you. In order to heal, we need to go within and take time for ourselves, find ourselves, top ourselves up, before we give away empty words and play lip service to what we know, but haven`t always experienced.

I need to remember my own words. So glad that this is one day at a time program, so I can practice, practice, practice.

[majestyjo]

A good reminder. Even in recovery, we can hide behind busy and not take time to work and live our own program. We can be focused on others and forget that we have to have it in order to give it away. If we keep giving, we become depleted if we don't remember to fill up I was told to top myself up, and only give away the overflow.